I went to a Halloween party last night. I just shaved my head so I decided to work with it for a costume. I went as a baseball.
10/30/2004
10/28/2004
I thought this deserved its own post. This is a song from the latest South Park. Puff Diddy dumbass’s Vote or Die (it’s not really puff, duh.)
Instant classic South Park tonight. Here’s the torrent link to download it. I’ll post some of my favorite audio clips later.
10/25/2004
Here’s something interesting I was reading on Slashdot. I just had to quote this comment on the post.
“My first computer was a .00001Khz Royal Typewriter. It had two keys, a one and a zero. If you wanted to reformat the disk, you dipped the paper in white-out =P”
10/23/2004
Update: I spent some time fixing/tweaking the gallery. Everything works except the previous picture link and it will skip to the next album when reaching the last pic rather than stopping.
I’ve added a new section to the blog. It’s a photo gallery add-on for wordpress. Pain in the ass to install but pretty easy to use. The first gallery I’ve put up has all the random images used for the blog. I add to it fairly often. (Navigation is a little quirky in the gallery, I’m still tweeking the interface.)
Update: I tried the Pumpkin Ale today. I didn’t like it at first but by the time I finished it I loved it. It’s got a tad too much allspice flavor. It’s spicy and a bit hoppy (bitter) but I think after a few more weeks in the bottle it will mellow out. We’ll see. I’m going to get cider this weekend, the brewshop I go to just got some in. Stay tuned…
3.3 lbs Light Malt
2 lbs Light Dry Malt
1 lb Crystal 40L
1 oz Willamette @boil
1 oz Liberty @15 minutes
1 oz Liberty @55 minutes
5 Lbs Roasted Pumpkin
1.5 Cinammon Sticks
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
.5 tsp Ground Nutmeg
.5 tsp Ground Ginger
.25 tsp Allspice
1 tsp Irish Moss
White Labs Australian Ale
Steeped the crystal malt in 1.5 gallons of water to 150 deg F. Removed grains and brought to boil. Added malt extracts and continued boil. Added 1 oz Williamette hop pellets, boiled for 15 mins and added 1 oz Liberty hop pellets. After another 15 mins I added the pumpkin meat and irish moss. After another 20 minutes I added the finishing 1 oz Liberty hops and all the spices. After another 5 minutes I removed from heat and cooled, added to 3.5 gallons of cold water and added yeast. The pumpkin was cleaned, quartered, and roasted at 350 deg F for 50 mins, skinned and mashed to pulp.
O.G. 1.035
10/21/2004
If you haven’t seen this, see it now…
MilkandCookies – Jon Stewart Owns Crossfire
Here’s the followup on the Daily Show
10/16/2004
I took almost all the dry and liquid malt I had and used it in this brew.
Ingredients
3.3 lb Ultralight LME
1 lb Dark DME
1 lb Light DME
1 lb Wheat DME
1 lb Crystal 40L
3 tbls Roasted Barley
1 oz Kent Goldings hops
1 oz Williamette hops
9000 ml Australian Ale Yeast Starter
I made this batch on the 7th and racked it to secondary today. The starting gravity was the biggest I’ve had yet.
O.G. 1.070
F.G. 1.010
Alc = 8.9% (this shit is no joke)
10/4/2004
1. The Bill Gates Reimbursement Machine
Here’s how it would work:Enter all time spent on Windows updates, patches, new ways of doing things that are different but not necessarily better and clearly nothing you need.
Enter value of your time per hour.
Machine calculates value of time wasted.
Bill Gates issues you a check and mails it with an apology.
I wouldn’t even know where to begin…
